Friday, August 31, 2018

Welcome to Raining Records! We are a local record label and distro based out of Troy, NY. For orders and inquiries, please email us at rainingrecords@gmail.com, or write to:

Raining Records
9 Euclid Avenue
Troy, NY 12180

US shipping is $4 per LP/CD/cassette, $5 flat rate shipping for multiple items. Please contact us for international rates. If you're local we can arrange delivery or meet up somewhere... Email us or send PayPal payment with order info to rainingrecords@gmail.com.
You can also visit our Discogs page here: https://www.discogs.com/seller/rainingrecords/profile.

NEWS:

MOON WORSHIP

Blood on Blonde - LP (RR08) - $15

OUT NOW!!!Following
their debut “Book the Pops”EP, Moon
Worship has teamed up once again with engineer Ryan Slowey to brew up this
season’s batch of sinister sleaze. While accounts vary as to what exactly took
place during those two days in the studio, the resulting full length tells a
tale of its own… Digital version is available for download here. Enjoy!

Moon Worship T-Shirts (red on black, or white on black. S - XL) - $12

Shirt/LP combo deal - $25

COMPLICATED SHIRT

This - LP (RR06) - $15

OUT NOW: The fourth and final full length from Albany's post-punk trio, Complicated Shirt!!! This is the long awaited follow-up to 2010's Instruments, with vocal contributions from Kelly Murphy (Empire State Troopers, The Wasted, Small Axe). Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies. Digital download is available here.

JASON MARTIN

Power Animal System Methods

NOW IN STOCK!!! Jason Martin has
been creating amazing music, visual and video art since he was small child,
when Jason started the seminal art noise punk band THE BROWN CUTS NEIGHBORS in
the late 1980's. Since then Jason has gone on to write and record many releases
under various names and has lead and participated in countless visual and video
art shows, performances and installations.

Released on Peterwalkee Records, first pressing limited to 300 copies, includes
digital download with bonus tracks not on the LP. $15

MOON WORSHIP

Book the Pops - cassette EP (RR07) - $5

OUT NOW: Moon Worship's "Book the Pops" cassette EP!!! Dark, greasy cuts of primitive sleaze under the influence of no wave, psychobilly, early industrial, and American trash culture... FREE download here. The physical cassette is available for just $5. Limited edition of 100.

ROCKETS AND BLUELIGHTS (CLOSE AT HAND)

"A Smashed City with Flames and Music in the Air" EP

BACK IN STOCK!!! 2003 EP from Albany's Rockets and Bluelights, this is an excellent piece of midwest-style indie/emo. Melodic instrumental passages with sparse, honest vocals. Toss this one on your turntable and let it take you back to the golden era of Albany basement shows! Released on Redder Records, limited 10" red vinyl. $12

TEAM ROBESPIERRE / BREVATOR - Split 10"

"Chrome Peeler has had a knack for bringing together seemingly disparate bands for some pretty cool releases, like with their You've Got Your Orders series of CD compilations that featured a diverse assortment of underground bands and artists writing original songs based on abstract song titles that the label invented and gave to each participant. This new 10" record is more of a New York scene report, featuring a side each from Brooklyn's Team Robespierre and Albany's Brevator, both bands offering their own weird versions of heaviness. Team Robespierre come out with nine songs of high energy electro-thrash, with two keyboardists, spastic drum sequencing, harsh shrieking vocals, the drumming going all over the place from herky-jerky no wave rhythms to blazing blastbeats...like the electro punk of the Screamers being played by a rabid digital grindcore band, brutal, manic, but infectiously catchy.

But where Team Robespierre are all about speed and mayhem and frantic keyboard chaos, when you flip the record over to Brevator's side, suddenly all of the oxygen is sucked out of the room and a heavy wave of slow feedback crashes over you as the Albany doom cult appears in a thick cloud of psychedelic sludgecore. They serve up a single untitled track that begins in a haze of heavy droning feedback and free saxophone blowing, cymbals starting to crash in as the drums creep into view, a crushing funeral doom riff eventually crashing down from above as the singer starts to sing in a deep, chanting voice,all while the buzz and crackle of malfunctioning instrument cables and short circuiting amplifiers fill the room. Where in the hell did these guys come from? This track is an amazing slab of psychedelic avant-doom, with a ritualistic graveyard atmosphere that reminds me of an even more fucked up Bloody Panda jamming with the Butthole Surfers." - CRUCIAL BLAST

COMPLICATED SHIRT - Instruments - CD (RR05) - $6
Albany post-punk trio's third full-length. You can stream/download it for free here.
Or you can buy it from us... It would be cool if you did.

COMPLICATED SHIRT - It's Almost 11:30 - CD-R single (RR03) - $2
Enclosed in pocket watch-style packaging, this is less than one minute of ridiculousness. Or awesomeness. You decide... Limited to 48.

FRIENDSHIP IS TERRIBLE - s/t - cassette (RR01) - $1
This lo-fi anti-folk trio takes you on bicycle rides through the magical streets of Albany in 2003. These are numbered of 180, but less than 100 were actually made.